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Louise Bourgeois
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- $25,000 - 35,000
$31,250
Lot Details
The complete set of 12 prints, including 11 etchings and one multiple, on Somerset and blue wove paper, with full margins, all contained in the original mauve cloth-covered portfolio.
1990
Portfolio 26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm)
All signed with initials and numbered 37/44 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York.
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Louise Bourgeois
French-American | B. 1911 D. 2010Known for her idiosyncratic style, Louise Bourgeois was a pioneering and iconic figure of twentieth and early twenty-first century art. Untied to an art historical movement, Bourgeois was a singular voice, both commanding and quiet.Bourgeois was a prolific printmaker, draftsman, sculptor and painter. She employed diverse materials including metal, fabric, wood, plaster, paper and paint in a range of scale — both monumental and intimate. She used recurring themes and subjects (animals, insects, architecture, the figure, text and abstraction) as form and metaphor to explore the fragility of relationships and the human body. Her artworks are meditations of emotional states: loneliness, jealousy, pride, anger, fear, love and longing.
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